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A company is using Azure Monitor to track the health and performance of their application hosted on Azure App Services. They need to receive an immediate email notification if the HTTP response time of their web application exceeds 2 seconds for a sustained period of 5 minutes. Which Azure Monitor component should be configured to achieve this?
- AAzure Monitor Action Groups
- BAzure Monitor Alerts
- CAzure Monitor Diagnostic Settings
- DAzure Monitor Workbooks
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Correct answer: B. Azure Monitor Alerts
Azure Monitor Alerts are designed to proactively notify users or trigger actions when specific conditions (like a metric threshold being breached for a sustained period) are met.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Action Groups define the actions to be taken when an alert fires (e.g., send email), but the alert itself is configured via Azure Monitor Alerts.
- C. Diagnostic Settings are used to export logs and metrics to other destinations for archival or analysis, not for triggering immediate notifications.
- D. Workbooks are for interactive data visualization and reporting, not for proactive notifications based on thresholds.
Azure Monitor Alerts
A feature in Azure Monitor that provides proactive notifications when specific conditions are met in your monitoring data, such as a metric exceeding a threshold or a log query returning a certain result.
- Triggers based on metrics, logs, or activity logs.
- Can be configured with conditions, aggregation, and frequency.
- Integrates with Action Groups for notification and automation.
Memory trick: Alerts ring, Action Groups spring, proactive monitoring takes wing.